Courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin; couples embracing.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Migeon 1909: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Holes for lost fittings.
Provenance
Collection of Pascal-Marie Piet-Lataudrie (d. 1909); R. Koechlin says that it was bequeathed to the Musée Archéologique in Niort (today Musée Bernard d'Agesci) but this piece was not part of the Piet-Lataudrie bequest to this Museum. Christie's, Paris, 7 November 2012, lot 58.
Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'La Collection de M. Piet-Lataudrie', in Les Arts 92 (August 1909), pp. 2-32 (p. 6).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479; II, no. 1273.
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